How to Use evaporate in a Sentence
evaporate
verb- Let the liquid start to evaporate.
- The heat evaporated the water.
- The opportunity evaporated before he could act on it.
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Even with just one spray, the red wine seemed to evaporate.
— Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2023 -
That should be warm enough to melt some snow and evaporate snow or ice off of many roads.
— oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023 -
By the end of that first month, his urges had evaporated.
— Megan Molteni, STAT, 10 July 2023 -
The higher percentage, the less room for sweat to evaporate from the body.
— Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2022 -
The Warriors won the third by 16, evaporating a slow start.
— Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024 -
Behind the scenes: By then, Trump's lead in the polls had evaporated.
— Dave Lawler, Axios, 2 Nov. 2024 -
The good news is that most of the time, the water will evaporate naturally.
— Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023 -
And any heat waves this spring could evaporate some of that snow water.
— Diana Leonard, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2023 -
If the air is already full of moisture, there’s nowhere for our sweat to evaporate.
— Kylie Mohr, The Atlantic, 22 June 2024 -
When there is a lot of moisture in the air, sweat evaporates much more slowly, or not at all.
— Laura Paddison, CNN, 29 July 2024 -
Once the butter melts, bubbles will begin to form along the sides of the saucepan, a sign of the water evaporating off.
— Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023 -
As the syrup cooks, water evaporates and the sugar begins to caramelize.
— Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 July 2023 -
Keep in mind, your body sweats and then cools itself as the moisture evaporates from your skin.
— Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024 -
The water content of the butter will look foamy and rise to the surface then begin to evaporate.
— Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2023 -
If the weather is cold enough and the lakes freeze over, less snow falls because the water can't evaporate into the air.
— Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2024 -
The moisture will evaporate up and around the plant, giving it more humidity than the rest of the room.
— Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021 -
As water evaporates from our skin, the surface of our skin cools.
— Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 19 June 2024 -
That's in keeping with the idea that this is a black widow system, where the star is destined to evaporate.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022 -
As Harris has shot up in the polls, the solid lead Trump had over Biden has evaporated.
— Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024 -
The world is warming, causing water to evaporate faster from the fields.
— New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022 -
It’s a brief, stylized portrait of the goodwill that will soon evaporate from this block to which much of the film is confined.
— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2021 -
The formic acid eventually evaporates as the noodle flies through the air to the metal plate.
— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Nov. 2024 -
The winds are still blowing at around 40 mph, but then, within the space of 30 feet, the gusts completely evaporate.
— Rennie Scaysbrook, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2022 -
Putting cold water or ice on the skin helps speed up this process, and cools down the body more quickly when water evaporates off the skin.
— Anil Oza, TIME, 18 June 2024 -
Mayor Robert Hale saw his small lead evaporate in the new results.
— Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2021 -
Just like boiling water on the stove, in flow boiling the liquid heats up and evaporates.
— Issam Mudawar, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Virga: the tease that evaporates before hitting the ground.
— Christine Clarridge, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
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